Gender Studies

 In order to have an idea of the evolution of Gender studies, it is

recommended that you read the chapters devoted to these theories in any
Critical Theory Reader, such as:

• "Gender and Sexuality ". Chapter 8 in Michael Ryan Literary Theory.

2008. Blackwell

(You can read it online or download it for free in the UNED catalog)

 FIND and STUDY the definitions of the terms in the Activities Document.
These are key terms in Gender Studies.

 SEARCH Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University and study the
sections:

• Feminist Criticism:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literatur
e/ literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/feminist_criticism.html

• Gender Studies and Queer Theory:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/
literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/gender_studies_and_queer_th
eory.html

 A good exercise would be to relate this critical school to Beloved. For that you
can read:

• Barbara Smith “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism”

http://webs.wofford.edu/hitchmoughsa/Toward.html

• Alexandre, Sandy. “From the Same Tree: Gender and Iconography in

Representations of Violence in Beloved” Signs, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Summer
2011), pp. 915-940

Further Reading:

Barry, Peter. "Feminist criticism". Beginning Theory. 2002. Manchester

University Press. Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction.

New York: Oxford UP, 2011. Print. During, Simon. Ed. The Cultural Studies

Reader. New York: Routledge, 2007. Print

Lentricchia, Frank and T. McLaughlin. Eds. Critical Terms for Literary Study.
Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1995. Print.

Richardson, Diane y V. Robinson. Eds. Introducing Gender and Women’s

Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Print.